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To: ifinnegan
OK, I'll double down.

Morality does not require belief in God.

13 posted on 04/05/2016 8:44:35 AM PDT by CapitalistCrusader
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To: CapitalistCrusader

Then what is “Morality” based on?

“Be Excellent to Each Other”, like in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure?


15 posted on 04/05/2016 8:45:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: CapitalistCrusader

“Morality does not require belief in God.”

Untenable.

This is mainstream establishment dogma. But it makes no sense, is oxymoronic and self-negating.


17 posted on 04/05/2016 8:49:16 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: CapitalistCrusader

“Morality does not require belief in God.”

Then what would be the point of being moral? Without the authority of God, morals do not exist.


49 posted on 04/05/2016 9:39:32 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: CapitalistCrusader

“Morality does not require belief in God.”

But objective morality (which I assume you are talking about since you capitalized “Morality”) strongly presupposes an objective moral law-giver.

That is unless you reason that life on Earth, through random natural selection, coincidentally evolved into a sentient creature who can also coincidentally come to know this objective moral reality.

It’s almost like saying that Gravity does not require a belief in Matter. It may not require it in a strict logical sense, but it certainly makes the explanation of it more reasonable.


57 posted on 04/05/2016 9:53:23 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: CapitalistCrusader
Morality does not require belief in God

Don't be silly. You can walk around doing what you determine to be "good" and "moral" all you want.

You and your fellows can even draw up social contracts and do your best to abide by them, rather like a Homeowners Association.

But without a divine authority, without God, there is no morality.

God instructs the faithful as to what is good and what is evil.

Who instructs you? I mean it not as a challenge or a rebuke, but a genuine question: Who or what instructs you?

73 posted on 04/05/2016 10:13:18 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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